Ziyed Ben Belgacem

Ziyed Ben Belgacem (1978-18 March 2017) was an Islamic State sympathizer who was killed while attempting to steal a gun from a patrolling French Army soldier at Orly Airport on 18 March 2017.

Biography
Ziyed Ben Belgacem was a French-born Muslim of North African descent, and he was a resident of the Garges-les-Gonesse suburb of Paris. He had a lengthy criminal record that included an armed robbery charge, and he was in prison from March to November 2016. Ben Belgacem harbored radical Islamist views, leading to his house being searched after the November 2015 Paris attacks, and he decided to carry out a lone-wolf attack in Paris on 18 March 2017. On the morning of 18 March, he used a pellet gun to lightly injure a French policewoman at a traffic stop, and he stole a car at Vitry-sur-Seine so that he could drive to Orly Airport. There, he knocked a female soldier to the ground and attempted to seize her weapon, but two other soldiers shot him dead before he could start shooting.